Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

PoEII is sloppy, like so much of Obsidian's work. As usual, the game is built on outstanding foundations. But the rest of it is a crumbling mess of bugs, shoddy design, and general laziness. CONS: The world of PoE is an intriguing fantasy, but it stops there b/c the rest of the narrative is so dull. Characters are largely uninteresting, with few exceptions. <3 Sarefen! Some of em have interesting stuff going on but nothing remarkable. The main quest is pathetically short and uninspired. The rest of the game is padded out with numerous side quests and encounters that are awfully drab. A veritable cornucopia of bugs and glitches and performance issues assault every moment of the experience. And the difficulty is absurdly unbalanced b/c Obsidian couldn't be arsed to do proper design. Combat is either stupidly hard or it literally plays itself and is almost always an incomprehensible mess. Ship combat is laughably pathetic. It plays out in prose and is mechanically thin and poorly thought out. The soundtrack is repetitive and obnoxious. Only four companions at a time. Leveling happens too fast. Useless tacked on pets PROS: The robust class system offers an endless combo of builds to play with. VO is outstanding. Obsidian certainly didn't skimp on their talented voice cast. Listening to some of these characters is a delight! Deadfire has no business looking this gorgeous (when it's running well). Lots of unique scripted encounters that play out in numerous ways based on your skills. The game reacts to your role in surprising ways. Interface is solidly designed and robust, though not always responsive. All in all Deadfire would be an enjoyable experience if Obsidian had given more than a fart. As it stands the design is sloppy, narrative and progression is bland and bugs are an incessant nuisance. Deadfire is not one of Obsidian's "flawed masterpieces." It's a fumble.

It has issues, and well they are all small nusiances but they add up, AI, turning Invisible, Enviromental Debuffs staying permantly, quest not finishing or triggering properly. I still enjoy it though but these things kill the enjoyment.

I feel like its not really that intresting. It's pretty boring to play. It's okay, but, its hard to get into.

Boring lore, bad combat, bad graphics. I love BG2, IWD series and Tyranny but this game is bad just like POE 1.

POE2 is RPG that we don't see very often lately , designed at its core to be computer version of pen and paper roleplaying game , and that itself gives this game high rating just for beeing a gem among stupidity of modern dumb console gamepad friendly action types of "RPG's" that polluted the earth. Worth to mention - this game feeds on nostalgia, there is no doubt about it , fans of Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale or even Planescape Torment, can find home in POE world . But this is a good thing, I rather see clones of great games than something i could barely call an RPG . Couple of things i really hate in POE2 . The World - I'm not big fan of Fantasy world where you cannot tell in which real world era game is set . Couple of examples, if you see Conan, that is ancient era type of Fantasy, if you see Lord of the Rings, that is Middleages world type of Fantasy, Medieval times with magic ,dragons etc . What is POE2 than ? I HAVE NO IDEA . It's like you take typical Fantasy world and throw it into 17th18th century colonial times mixed with Fantasy Medieval Era . Bows, Knights... Pirates, Guns... Elves,Druids...Cannons,Machines, Colonial type of town with fairly modern spanish carribean architecture ... all of the sudden dun dun 11th century CASTLE guarded by a dragon :P The Combat - it has been proven on multiple occasions, turn based combat works much better in highly complicated games with insane ammount of abilities . But yet again, they HAVE to make combat similar to old cRPG's like Baldurs Gate becouse that is their main audience . However there is option to set combat in slow motion which really helps so we dont have to spam spacebar every 0,5 second to catch a grip on what is going on . Aside from some problems, gaming world would be much better place with RPG's like POE2 as standard.